The swarm's credential docs say where every file lives. They do not say
whether it should be a file at all, so a discussion about direction has
had nothing to point at and each one re-derived the same table.
This page carries that table with the three columns the target contract
is written in — minter, reader, renewal — plus the column the target is
really about: whether the value is persisted outside the store. Stating
it flatly is the point. All four stored families are plaintext files on
disk, the appservice token twice; every renewal cell reads NONE; no agent
container holds a store identity at all, so the hive reads on its behalf
and writes a file in; and the appservice token has a second, uncoordinated
local mint that can diverge from the published one.
The target section is marked as a target throughout, because its first
line is the one most easily misread as fact: every host needing a store
mTLS certificate is where this is going, while today only the store's own
host auto-mints and swarm-bao.nix calls it the credential an operator
places by hand everywhere else.
The progressive-enhancement rule is stated as a table of questions a
reviewer applies to a pull request rather than as prose, since a rule
nobody can check is a preference. New functionality matches the target
immediately; existing functionality moves stepwise, and the questions
distinguish a step from churn.
Indexed from the docs root and the swarm README. It supersedes
secrets.md when the migration completes — at which point that file is
deleted and this one moves into its place.
